Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to write and illustrate about my journey from leukemia diagnosis to finish line of the New York City Marathon. Take a look at the finished project (and the process behind it) here

A special thanks goes out to Design Director Kory Kennedy and Editor Charlie Butler for helping me share this story.

Once again, I'm training to participate in an endurance event as a member of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) Team In Training. All of us on Team In Training are raising funds to help stop leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma from taking more lives. I am completing this event in honor of all individuals, like me, who are battling blood cancers. We need your support to cross the ultimate finish line - a cure!

Last year we raised over $6,800 for LLS. This year your support is more important than ever. As government cuts funding for things like cancer research, charities like LLS are going to need to make up the shortfall so that advances in cancer research do not come to a halt. Please make a donation to support my participation in Team In Training and help advance LLS's mission.